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HomeFour UO Students Win Library Research Awards
May 9, 2006
Four University of Oregon students have been named winners of Library Research Awards for 2006. This annual competitive program, recently endowed with generous gifts from Barbara Sparks and Jon and Lisa Stine, honors UO undergraduates who produced outstanding original research and scholarship during the 2005 calendar year using resources available in the UO Libraries.
To enter the competition, students must have written their papers as part of their UO coursework and must supply a letter of support from a UO faculty member. The two top awards carry a $1,000 scholarship prize, with two $500 scholarships awarded for honorable mention.
A first prize award went to David Kurushima for his paper “Oregon's Wheelmen: Oregon Bicycle Culture and Advocacy During the Golden Age of the Wheel (1885-1900).” Kurushima, a humanities major from Los Angeles, wrote the paper for a History of Oregon class taught by Glenn May, professor of history.
A first prize award also went to John Murphy for “Pozzo's Perspective: Visual Hagiography in the Church of St. Ignatius, Rome.” Murphy’s research paper was written for an art history class, Critical Approaches to Art History, taught by James Harper, assistant professor of art history. Murphy, from Salem, Oregon, majors in art history.
An honorable mention award went to Richard Bacon for “Oregon's Bottle Bill: A Battle Between Conservation and Convenience,” a paper written in Glenn May’s History of Oregon class. Bacon is a history major from Keizer, Oregon.
Mary Ann Casas, from Cave Junction, Oregon, also earned an honorable mention award for her paper “Moreno vs. Tankersley: The Migrant Class Action of 1969.” The paper was prepared for a History of Oregon class taught by Glenn May. Casas recently graduated from the UO with degrees in history and Spanish.
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The award recipients’ papers have been deposited in Scholars’ Bank, a digital archive of UO research and scholarship, and can be viewed online at https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/dspace/handle/1794/313.
The Library Research Awards program for 2006 was made possible through a library contribution of Freshman Seminar funds from a course taught by professors Mark Watson and Ted Smith. Future funding is made possible through the Jon and Lisa Stine Endowment and the Milton C. and Barbara B. Sparks Endowment.
Complete information on the Library Research Awards can be found at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/general/libaward.html.